Inspired Team
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Inspired Capital is excited to announce Inspired x Harvard, a new initiative to back the next generation of Harvard founders.
Inspired’s ties to Harvard run deep. Our founder Alexa von Tobel is a Harvard College alum who dropped out of Harvard Business School to launch LearnVest, one of the first fintech companies built to make financial planning accessible to everyday Americans, which was acquired in 2015 for nearly $400 million. And our co-founder Penny Pritzker is also a Harvard alum and serves as the Senior Fellow on the Harvard Corporation, Harvard’s governing board.
We have backed breakout companies founded by Harvard alumni, including Suno, Splitwise, Duckbill, Basic Capital, ShopMy, Comprehensive, Jetson, Logiqal, Rovr, Supper, Finix, Habi, Form Energy, MosaicML, and Niural. We look for the most relentless, ambitious founders, those who see what others cannot, dare to imagine a radically different future, and have the conviction to bend the world to their vision.
We want to inspire more founders, and many are positioned to come from campuses like Harvard. With our new $450M Fund IV, we’re ready to help bring their ideas to life.
Inspired x Harvard is designed to help exceptional Harvard founders and aspiring founders across the College, HBS, Law, Medical, and PhD programs go further, faster. We will do everything in our power to support the next generation of entrepreneurs and founders.
What that looks like:
1. Dedicated capital: We are one of the top venture capital firms, manage billions of dollars, and have a fresh $450M fund to deploy into outlier founders.
2. World-class advisors pioneering the future of AI, robotics, and compute: Direct access to the founders, operators, and experts shaping what comes next, to help turn ambitious ideas into enduring businesses.
3. A permanent home in New York City: Workspace at Inspired’s NYC office for J-term, spring break, and summer, alongside our investment team and a community of ambitious founders.
4. Hands-on company-building support: Our team has built 10 companies that scaled to hundreds of millions of users, and our portfolio has scaled to billions in revenue. With our dedicated revenue team, we’re uniquely set up to help founders land early customers, build go-to-market, generate revenue, recruit talent, and move faster through the earliest stages.
If you’re a Harvard University student, researcher, or alum with a bold, ambitious idea, even if you haven’t started building yet, we want to hear from you.
We’ll be on Harvard’s campus November 17–20, hosting events, meeting founders, and holding office hours. We can’t wait to meet you.
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